State Health Minister Lawrence Springborg maintains Queensland has lost $103 million in federal health funding because of restructures and Victoria have received its lost funding back.

And he bought former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd into the stoush on Thursday, saying Queensland might be missing out because Prime Minister Julia Gillard does not like the backbencher.

‘‘I mean we understand Victoria is the Prime Minister's home state well Queensland is the deputy Prime Minister's home state,’’ he said.

‘‘I think we are now paying the price for what is a get square with Kevin Rudd.’’

Mr Plibersek issued a statement, warning the Newman Government to stop its "dishonest political scare campaign’’.

“Make no mistake, if the Newman Government doesn’t stop its dishonest campaign and start delivering better health services, then we will take action and redirect existing Queensland funding back into local hospitals,” Ms Plibersek said.

“The Newman Government’s dishonest campaign to shift responsibility from its own savage cuts to health services must stop.

“Commonwealth funding to Queensland is already increasing by $600 million over the next four years, a 21 per cent increase [from $3.1 billion to $3.7 billion].’’

In a later media conference, Mr Springborg acknowledged his own government's cuts to Queensland Health but said the LNP has been upfront about the cuts and had ‘‘enhanced’’ the health system.

He said the federal government's cuts had ‘‘dire’’ consequences for the health system and Queensland was losing frontline services as a result.

A war of words erupted on Thursday morning after Mr Springborg demanded the commonwealth stop withholding millions in funding for the state's hospitals.

The state will lose $103 million in federal health funding this financial year, according to Mr Springborg.

‘‘Queensland should get that money back because it equals thousands of operations in Queensland,’’ he told 612 ABC Brisbane.

‘‘It means that we won’t have to cancel elective surgery for non-urgent patients and also it will mean that we’ll be able to save some of the clinical jobs that are now at risk.’’

The Princess Alexandra Hospital - one of Brisbane’s largest hospitals - has reportedly cancelled 10 per cent of its surgery because of $18.8 million in federal funding cuts.

Victoria was set to lose a significant slice of its commonwealth health funding, but the federal government has decided to give the money directly to the state’s local hospital networks.

In a swipe at the Baillieu government, the money will be immediately paid directly to hospital administrators, rather than into state coffers.

The federal government wrote to Premier Campbell Newman on Wednesday, saying it would deal directly with hospitals unless his government better manages its health budget.

Ms Plibersek said the Queensland government was misleading voters.

‘‘One of the first things that it did on coming to government is sack more than 4000 staff and in recent times they’ve been trying to blame the federal government for that,’’ she told 612 ABC Brisbane.

Ms Plibersek said the federal decision about Queensland’s health funding would depend on the Newman government.

‘‘We’ll see how the Queensland government behaves in the short term,’’ she said.

''The central point is that Queensland has got $155 million more this year than it did last year to run its hospital system ... it’s a 6.2 per cent increase.

‘‘You have to ask, if we give more money to Queensland Health, how can they possibly be doing less with it?

‘‘Over the coming years they’re going to get $600 million extra from the Commonwealth government. Why are they sacking people with a $600 million increase in funding coming? Why are people waiting for elective surgery? ... Why are we seeing facilities close?

‘‘What I won’t cop, is our funding going up and services for Queenslanders getting worse.’’